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What you’ll be doing...

This position will be supporting the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (COMA) and its Health and Human Services division (EoHHS), under the Commonwealth's "COMA ITT72" statewide contract.

This position will be a dedicated service program manager that will be responsible for all service management tasks for COMA and EoHHS, including Billing/Fiscal governance, Problem Management, Change Management, and Asset Management.

Responsibilities include

Problem Management

Develop and maintain the Problem Management Database to include the below:

• Record, manage and escalate service problems, as appropriate.

• Analyze historical data to identify and eliminate potential incidents before they occur.

• Identify underlying causes and prevent recurrences.

• Perform and provide to Customer root cause analysis to identify the source of a problem and implemen actions to eliminate the cause.

• Perform trend analysis on the volume, nature and source of problems in order to identify areas for improvement.

• Provide in-depth analysis of problems together with recommendations for preventative measures.

• Identify scope of a problem and provide operational and technical assistance to remedy the problem.

• Categorize and document relative importance of each problem, per agreed definitions.

• Make recommendations and implement corrective actions to fix root causes.

• Work proactively to identify and associate common faults and to determine their underlying cause.

• Work to ensure all service improvement actions requiring Network changes follow agreed Change and Release Management Process, validate the problem resolution and corrective actions are sufficient to work to ensure the root cause does not reoccur.

Change Management

• Oversee all Verizon Changes related to the Customer and ensure they are documented and communicated per the agreed process. This includes T&M.

• Specify process flow of change requests, validation, and approval – specific for non-standard changes, and coordinate with NOC and standard MACD process through the Portal.

• Participates in Customer Change Control meeting and engage in approval processes.

• Manage integration of Customer Change Management Process to Verizon Change Management Process.

• Monitor the quality of the change management process and intervene to correct and improve it, as needed.

• Communicate changes using the agreed to Change Management Processes.

Asset Management

• Customers can request the Technical Program Manager to provide assistance in accessing the below information if not readily available from other Verizon databases.

• CPE Inventory - Keep complete inventory of all premise based products, current hardware and software levels and track product support life cycle for technology refresh planning.

• CPE Maintenance Inventory – Document all 3rd party CPE maintenance contracts to include: Product description; Contract ID#’s; Term duration (start/end); Level of coverage; date to provide renewal price quotes (Customer input needed based on budget cycles).

• Work internally with quoting team to prepare for Customer maintenance contract renewals

What we’re looking for...

This position requires three or more years knowledge and experience with Public Sector customer service management and wireline telecommunications operations. Verizon Wireline specific experience or COMA telecom service management experience is preferred but not required.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Three or more years of relevant work experience.

• Extensive knowledge of telecommunications systems and processes

• Good customer speaking/relationship skills and strong knowledge of Excel, and other Microsoft systems.

• Documentation skills: Visio, G-Suite, Jive, MS Office suite.

• Strong Knowledge of TDM and IP Networking and Voice systems (Ethernet, Centrex, POTS, VOIP, DIA, UC)

Even better if you have:

• Masters degree.

• Strong core networks - Internet and MPLS, WAN Optimization.

• Prior COMA Public Sector Service Management / Customer Operations experience

• Prior Verizon Wireline Operations/Customer Service experience

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and a minimum eight assigned office days per month that will be set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

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